NFL Considering Negating Touchdowns If Player Taunts

[b. woods]

at some of the comments from that article:

So if a guy you work with get’s a raise and does a salsa dance in front of you while mocking your efforts that’s okay? LOL maybe you should THINK about the rule first before considering it stupid. These rich egomaniacs could use a taste of humble pie

I hope this does become a rule. Taunting should not be tolerated. No matter how much Tate apologizes, I lost all respect for this clown.

Good. Weed out the ungrateful show boating pieces of s that overinhabit the NFL and its fanbase. Bring it back to simpler times. Getting rid of that class of people in this league will also reduce dirty hits. Those filthy animals are one in the same as those who taunt.

I am amazed at how many people here are objecting to this.
What ever happened to classy players like Barry Sanders and Emmitt Smith who would score and then take the ball and give it to an official?? I’ll tell you what happened, now there’s idiots writing invisible signatures on balls, or real ones in a few cases. You’ve got these overpaid punks trying to one up one another and it’s spiraling out of control. Add to the fact that kids are starting to do this on the high school fields and getting flagged and the parents back the kid up instead of insisting their kid show a bit of class and telling them that crap is inappropriate. The whole reason the NCAA made this a live ball foul was because all it did was lead up to the games getting out of control and fights breaking out.
I’ve officiated football in high school since 1992 and college since 2002. This crap all trickles down to younger levels. When the whole team gets penalized, the team and the players learn pretty darn quick. Had that been a live ball penalty in the Rams Hawks game….Seattle may have lost. That would’ve made a pretty good impression of why you don’t do that and taught a few million people something about class and composure. Plus, the 15 yard penalty assessed on the kickoff does nothing with the new kickoff rules….touchback either way nowadays almost every kickoff.
Apparently a lot of you guys are looking for a little more gang bang in your football….and at the same time wonder what the country is becoming. Congrats.

 

[MikelArteta]

Like on some NHL shyt? I firmly agree, btw.

yep
you do a dirty hit in the nhl or touch a star, or show up you already know what will happen.

same in baseball if you showboat on a home run you know your getting drilled next time up with a 95mph fastball.

 

[MoneyTron]

have no problem with players taunting. really no problem with rule, but it is a little much. let players have fun

We all know who has a problem with taunting breh. Plainly obvious.

 

[distinguishedNOW]

Obviously nobody is gonna stop watching. I'll ask you a question. Let's say the Panthers are down 6 with a minute to go, week 17, and a win gets them the wild card. Cam breaks a 30 yard run for a touchdown but it gets called back because he high stepped it into the endzone or held the ball above his head starting at the 5. You'll merely be angry at Cam right? He should've adjusted to this clearly inconsequential rule, right?

My nikka if that's the rule I can't do nothing but expect my team to follow it.

And as far as I understand it your example isn't a taunt. nikkas celebrate on their way to the endzone all the time with no penalties called. Dude from the Patriots grabbed his dikk and jumped in the endzone a few weeks back and no penalty was called I don't think (he got fined). Tate specifically pointed a nikka out and taunted him a good 20-30 yards. That's different than high stepping into the endzone.

 

[BigE214]

I would hate this shyt. Steve Smith beating a DB for a TD, turning around to cuss him out and the TD gets called back

Cro jumping a route, catching the pick and pointing to the endzone on his own 40 then high stepping on his gets called back

 

[MoneyTron]

at some of the comments from that article

Like I said, plainly obvious.

I really think a lot of fans hate that their teams have black players. I really do.

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

 

[Higher Tech]

they have this dumb rule in college, i remember brad wing got his td called back for doing it




i say let it happen, if its offensive let the players handle it , remember when terrell owens did that thing on the dallas star and george teague leveled him?:

players take care of players

Yea, let a game get decided by something like this... A player half ass putting his arms up to celebrate a game winning touchdown. It's a classic show of the NFL to over react. Golden Tate does some a$$hole shyt like that, and hit him with a minor fine and the penalty, but he still worked hard and earned 6 points

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

So, when a QB runs a naked bootleg and runs into the endzone holding the ball up what are the chances they get flagged?

Has any of these moral justices ever complained about this, or it's considered ok for some reason

 

[godkiller]

I'll ask again yall about to stop watchin football because players will be penalized for taunting?

Naw? Yeah ain't think so.

The answer to your question is irrelevant. In fact your question is an example of the "begging the question fallacy.

I don't think players should be punished for celebrating and neither do most fans. The entire issue is bullshyt. Football is not a gentleman sport. Passion and emotionalism are important parts of the game and deserve to be preserved as such.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Wait, so it's celebrating as well, not just taunting that's the problem?

No it's just taunting but because this fakkit ass Tate took the shyt too far he might have fukked it up for all celebrations.

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

brehs, real talk who is upset at player taunting and showboating?

Players dont say shyt about it in the media because they deal with it on the field

Its usually these crusty ass TV announcers and other assorted media members.

This is something that I will never understand why people get upset over.

Always some corny ass analyst grandstanding on some moral horse shyt like " they should play the game the way it should be played blah blah blah blah "

 

[Whitty Hutton]

Players talk shyt all game long. Refs can hear it, it's just never called....at least not now. But the way we're headed...

Imagine how many times the refs hear the word nikka during the course of a game. If they get the power to flag players for what they say to each other

 

[Savior]

Whos got a problem with players taunting? Do yall REALLY need to ask? Old disgruntled cacs mean mugging the TV screen talking about "these negroes acting like animals out there". There's plenty of them out there just read that comments section

 

[b. woods]

Like I said, plainly obvious.

I really think a lot of fans hate that their teams have black players. I really do.

In the last comment in my post, I'm like, "What the fukk does celebrating/taunting in a NFL game have to do with gangbanging, as well as the state of the country?" "Since when are they one in the same?" Those commenters over there have to be , if not,